HeatWave Lakehouse gets updated object storage features The data lakehouse module inside HeatWave, according to the company, has been updated with new capabilities, such as support...
Inference speed: Smaller models generally provide quicker inference times, enabling real-time processing and increasing energy efficiency and cost savings. Accuracy: Larger models enhanced with retrieval-augmented generation,...
According to the company, Oracle Database@Google Cloud can now be used across four regions: US East (Ashburn), US West (Salt Lake City), UK South (London), and...
IDG The glory that was TapCIS for Compuserve Today, being “online” is ubiquitous, and the cost is rapidly approaching zero. There is plenty of free Wi-Fi around and,...
Public cloud providers are expensive, and I’m not alone in that opinion. Civo, a company specializing in public cloud services, recently published a report on the...
Rust 1.81 is now available, with the newest version of the memory-safe language, featuring a stabilization of the Error trait in the Rust core library. Rust...
The C language has dropped to fourth place in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity, its lowest position in the monthly index ever. The index was...
But this leads to our fifth problem, which is similar-yet-different data sets. Why are there multiples? Which one should I use? Is this data set still...
The less code the better Software developers, after all, don’t actually write much code. Or they shouldn’t. Channeling Majors’ comment above, a big part of software...
Other data fabric solutions featured in Forrester’s Wave are Cloudera, Informatica, Denodo, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise IBM, InterSystems, K2view, Microsoft, Oracle, Qlik, Solix Technologies, Teradata, and...
What is Haystack? As an open-source framework for building LLM applications, Haystack tries to do the important things correctly, rather than doing all the things. Haystack...
“For example, you might have a game developer using an LLM to generate game character descriptions or parameters on the fly. For that to work, the...
Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.93, its August 2024 update of the popular code editor, featuring a profiles editor that allows users to switch and...
AI is the driver If the concept of abstraction has been around for decades, albeit called different things, why is there renewed interest now? A significant...
GitHub vs. Bitbucket GitHub isn’t the only hosted enhanced Git service, and GitHub Enterprise isn’t the only on-premises product for companies. Atlassian Bitbucket competes with both...
Vue 3.5, an update to the popular “progressive” JavaScript framework, emphasizes improvements to the platform’s reactivity system, for better performance and improved memory usage. Vue 3.5,...
Just ask Tom Taulli, who’s authored multiple AI programming books, including this year’s AI-Assisted Programming: Better Planning, Coding, Testing, and Deployment. “For example, you can ask...
The main() method first verifies that a single command-line argument has been specified. If the verification succeeds, it passes this argument to Audio.newAudio() and assigns the...
After waiting so long for the first Windows Copilot Runtime tools to arrive, this was a disappointing result, especially as the hang not only locks up...
The definition breaks down A mere three months later, a new type of attack materialized that didn’t fit within the existing typology. A new attack type...
Angular 19, a planned update to the popular TypeScript-based web framework, is set to make standalone: true the default for components, directives, and pipes. This change,...
While Arrow provides an in-memory columnar format, Data Fusion, Flight SQL, and Parquet provide a query engine with SQL processing capabilities, a protocol for SQL interactions...
The pg_upgrade utility is the preferred way to migrate data between versions of PostrgreSQL. It is typically used when you are installing a new version of...
So, encryption will be moved into the transport layer and out of the app layer. This means more security by default—even the headers in HTTP/3 are...
Qt Group is moving forward with Qt/.NET, a proposed toolkit for interoperability between C++ and Microsoft’s .NET software development platform. The toolkit includes a Qt-based custom...
For a brief time, it looked as if the open source bait and switch was a success. What could the community do but shake their collective...
Further, developers will be able to use integrated development environments, such as Visual Studio Code along with community-supported extensions, such as cbshell 1.0, which supports vector...
Oracle’s Database 23c gets vector search to underpin generative AI use cases Sept 20, 2023: Oracle is planning to add vector search capabilities to its database offering, dubbed Database...
Alongside this, developers and IT operations staff will have to look at where they run generative AI workloads. Many companies will start with this in the...
Portability is never easy or cheap The fundamental challenge lies in the inherent differences between cloud environments. Each cloud provider operates with unique APIs, protocols, and...
Take Banon, who founded Elastic and before that created the Elasticsearch project in 2010. As he tells it, he took out loans to trademark Elasticsearch to...
Whatever shape they eventually take, streamlined internal platforms are clearly a direction for cloud infrastructure. “In the same way that today’s developers no longer think about...
For instance, the location of a restaurant may have existed on a digital map for years. But now someone can link up-to-date menus from one database...
.NET Aspire 8.2, a new version of Microsoft’s cloud stack for building distributed applications, has arrived. The latest version features improvements for onboarding and testing. Developers...
What’s happening in the world of Python as summer winds down? Here are some of our favorites: Python is an established mover and shaker in data...
Chaos engineering involves stress-testing systems by simulating real-world adversities, such as cyberattacks and internal failures. By creating controlled chaos, organizations hope to prepare their infrastructure for...
Quest Software has released version 14 of its erwin Data Modeler and erwin Data Intelligence tools, offering what the company describes as advanced data intelligence, data...
With the .NET Community Toolkit 8.3 release, Microsoft said that APIs across all packages have been annotated to fully support trimming and AOT compatibility, to ensure...
Always derive from the Exception class When creating custom exception classes, always derive from the Exception class, not from the ApplicationException class. One of the reasons...
Compile Listings 5 and 6 as follows: javac *.java When you compile a class whose method contains a local class, the compiler creates a class file...
Although planning helps with initial application design, Sisk’s architecture does simplify extending APIs, simply adding new routes as necessary. Starting with a well-structured application, new routes...
Citing a security concern, Microsoft announced it is removing the BinaryFormatter from the planned .NET 9 open source application platform. Microsoft outlined the risk of using...
Microsoft has announced the Pinecone .NET SDK, for building AI applications that leverage the Pinecone vector database. With the SDK, Pinecone is becoming the newest member...
The Clojure-based Humble UI is being developed as a framework for building high-quality desktop UIs. Humble UI’s GitHub page says the framework lets developers build better...
Class clazz = objectInstance.getClass(); Field field = clazz.getDeclaredField("name"); field.setAccessible(true); String value = (String) field.get(objectInstance); System.out.println(value); // prints “John Doe” Notice we are again directly working with...
“By opting in, developers no longer have to spend time and effort predicting demand fluctuations,” the company wrote in a blog post. “Moreover, this capability prioritizes...
Over the next decade or so, I used the Evoluent mouse nonstop, to the point where its buttons started to malfunction and the whole unit started...
Microsoft has donated its Mono Project, which has provided a .NET implementation on Android, iOS, Linux, and other operating systems, to the WineHQ organization, according to...
As organizations of all sizes and sectors race to develop, deploy or buy AI and LLM-based products and services, what are the things they should be...
Virtually everyone today has some kind of “feed.” Whether it is a news and information feed from Google Discover or Apple News, or just the social...